Even though the Civil War has been thoroughly studied for over 160 years, new discoveries are still being made. Last spring, a Civil War-era cannonball was found in the backyard of a Virginia home.

The camp, established in 2014 at the height of the country’s ruinous civil war, was built in a deconfliction zone controlled by the United States-led coalition forces fighting against ISIL (ISIS).

For Union soldiers, a cup of coffee made hardtack biscuits more palatable. Heritage Auctions Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened ...

A group of Tel Aviv Museum of Art employees has been lining up outside the museum's two public entrances each workday since early April, to stand in opposition for thirty minutes before the ...

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War. A major dispute over slavery was the primary cause of ...

IRWIN, Pa. — In a first-of-its-kind ceremony in Westmoreland County on Monday, dozens honored the final Union Civil War veteran buried in the county, John E. Weigel. The ceremony at Weigel's ...

The smell of campfires and gunpowder were in the air at Burton Century Village Museum and Historical Education Center’s Civil War re-enactment. The encampment took place on May 24 at 14653 E ...

Civil War marker has survived to tell the story of Union troops’ surrender By Paula Allen, Contributor May 24, 2025 ...

War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings.

The official synopsis reads: “In the midst of the Civil War, the U.S. Army sends a company of volunteer soldiers to the western territories, with the task of patrolling the uncharted borderlands.

PARKERSBURG — The next regular meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will be 7 p.m. March 20 at the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History, 137 Juliana St., Parkersburg.